Observing the Human Brain in Action
The Maryland Neuroimaging Center (MNC) is a vibrant neuroimaging research hub at the University of Maryland, College Park. Housed in a spacious facility in the Gudelsky Building, adjacent to the main College Park campus, the center has been designed to foster collaboration among neuroscientists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, engineers, and physicists. A special focus of the center is on understanding mechanisms of brain development and neural plasticity in typical and atypical populations, and in understanding the neural mechanisms underlying expert abilities that serve critical national priorities. The MNC is available to researchers from the University of Maryland and other regional centers.
MNC houses a state of the art research-dedicated Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner, ideal for mapping brain structures and the location of brain activity.
Dr. Lauren Atlas gives talk at MNC
Expectations profoundly influence perception and emotion. Computational models of reinforcement learning provide fruitful descriptions of how expectations dynamically develop in response to rewards and punishments. Dr. Atlas' talk focused on the relationship between...
Dr. JD Power gives talk at MNC
Dr. Jonathan D. Power gave a talk titled "Spontaneous fMRI signal: What’s in it for me?" at the Maryland Neuroimaging Center to a standing room only crowd. A substantial fraction of fMRI studies are now entirely or partially “functional connectivity” studies, which...
UMD Researchers Receive Grants under New Federal BRAIN Initiative
A University of Maryland-led team of brain researchers and a UMD engineer have received grants that are part of a research initiative by President Obama focused on revolutionizing understanding of the human brain. A University of Maryland/National Institute of Mental...
Brain-behavior initiative workshop draws 160 faculty, deans and administrators for wide-ranging discussions
More than 160 faculty from at least 50 disciplines at the University of Maryland met together in College Park on Sept. 19 for a full-day Brain-Behavior Initiative Workshop, organized by the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science program and the Institute for Systems...
Dr. Riggins and Dr. Redcay Receive NIH R01 Award
Professors Tracy Riggins and Elizabeth Redcay, both of the Developmental Area, were recently awarded an R01 from NIH/ NICHD. The title of the project is “Hippocampal-memory Network Development and Episodic Memory in Early Childhood."
Dr. Shackman Publishes Paper
Evolutionarily-conserved prefrontal-amygdalar dysfunction in early-life anxiety A new fMRI paper from the Dr. Shackman's lab was just accepted for publication at Molecular Psychiatry (2012 Impact Factor 14.897; #1/135 Psychiatry). In the report, Shackman and...